Today I did a hard thing
and lived to tell about it
Poetry inspired by being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
My grandma always said,
“I’ve got two feet on the ground,
“I can do anything anyone can do.”
She barely stood five feet
though she claimed five-two.
There’s an ebb and flow,
a give and take.
Sometimes your heart is full,
sometimes it breaks
and so you hold on.
“Hey there dark cloud,
why did you take my sun away?
I don’t want to see you,
I don’t want to see you today.”
She is going out in the world
time to show what she is made of.
She is going to show the big world
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Daniel 3
The King said,
“Go now, go, go,
you should all bow
bow right now
and worship the idol.
I am the King so make it so.”
“Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also” ~ 2 Samuel 11:21
I am a man,
an honest man at that.
I know where
my allegiance is at –
I am small I know
Only a tiny, little bee
But it is my work
To provide you some sweet honey.
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